skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No he is right.

The issue is something like this. Most people have a tough time realizing that 99% of the times their net condition on any day is result of their own doing.

You see the problem manifest here.

1. Notice non equal participation of women.
2. Blame men.
3. Shift the onus of change on men not women.
4. Wash your hands off the situation, and claim high moral high ground.

Now notice what women did when there was a non equal participation of men. They treat it as it is supposed to be. Which is that men didn't take the initiative to be there and hence laughter.

The first step to change the world is basically start by changing oneself first. Now if you do all this and still get limited by the environment around you, then you can start by blaming the other things.

But even before starting, trying and doing something. You have 100 people to blame you are not likely to see any improvement soon.
Will you release the source? I don't use any of the stuff you use, except vim, would be interested to have a look
Looks awesome. One really minor nit (only bringing it up because it's odd / looks like there's a +1 floating around somewhere): In the HTML5 version (latest Safari, Mac OS X) there's a small black band to the left of the video that is NOT in the flash version. Guessing offhand looks like it's 2-3px.
If Chrome and Google+ support Persona, they would validate the system and get an advantage on Facebook.

Facebook blew it. They could have been identity for the internet, but with all the privacy and spam problems users HATE logging in with Facebook connect. We tried it for a website and it just failed. There's huge resistance.
As a guy sitting in a soba joint in Tokyo right now...I cannot imagine how much it would cost to put those doors on all the JR and Metro stations. It's certainly in the realm of prohibitive.
Sure, but I am asking if this can be modded to gain unauth access to the webcam.
How can we know the numbers are correct?
The article was using the data from NetApplications which is % of users. Most % of page views, such as StatCounter, still show Chrome as the top browser.
Normalisation of settings would be a very good thing to do. 'ruler' and 'ru', 'autoindent' and 'ai', 'etc.' and 'et cetera'.
My plant’s big on Twitter
Haha, maybe if I have time! It might make a fun custom line interpolator, one of the features added in 2.10: http://bl.ocks.org/3310323
That's the point being made, there doesn't appear to be a source that allows any sort of comparison - how may of X or Y were sold? The article gives neither.
That is damn cool; I didn't even know there was an api for pure js. I thought you were stuck using flash if you wanted to use the camera.
Tarmigan, I have a friend who really MUST work at Tesla. He was a staff eng at Sun, National Semi, Cobalt, etc.

He is a master in solar power generation monitoring (designs custom embedded BACNET boxes, develops standards based protocols for energy monitoring, fosters the creation of industry working groups around said protocols/ideas, etc) among other things wrote the first book on SAMBA... blah blah blah.

This guy will solve (if he hasnt already) this for you:

>* Design and evaluation of algorithms for energy and power markets

>* Designing a robust system to control distributed resources

YOU NEED TO HIRE THIS GUY.

How can I connect you both?

Please reply to my email addy in my profile.

As a finders fee, I humbly ask to escort Elon Musk's ashes to Mars.
These number are very different than that shown by StatCounter [1] and Wikipedia [2]. If you look at Wikipedia's comparisons, they compare data from many sources. NetApplications (the dataset used by this article) is by far the one source that differs greatly from the rest of the data.

This likely has to do with the types of audiences that visit the sites they monitor, so the data should be taken with a grain of salt.

[1] http://gs.statcounter.com/
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers
Worked for me. Amazing! A very nice experience.

(Chrome, Windows 7)

It's also nice to know that you can do this kind of things in JS.
Dinosaurs of the Digital Age: Computer History Museum in Mountain View
As far as I understand http://lloyd.io/how-browserid-works , the browser will hold a "certificate of ownership of the email". Since browser do not yet implement Persona, it is done in javascript with https://login.persona.org/include.js .

I do not yet understand what prevent me to steal these 'certificate of ownership of the email' by creating a web site with my own version of 'include.js'. In this malicious version, the "Assertion Generation" also send the private key to the server. After that, the server can uses the user login as he wants. It seems there is a timeout, but it allow the malicious server to log so long the time out is not ellapsed.
Where I'am wrong?
I think you did a good job on the data presentation. I'm not even a vim user and I found it intuitive to understand the analysis you did (i.e. the question you wanted to ask) and the results of that analysis. Just generally speaking, I thought it was a very data science-esk solution. You had a curiosity (what settings do people use in their default vim config), you came up with a way to get data that could help shed light on that question (grab vim config files from a location that has a lot of people from a relevant sample (developers) revealing their vim config files -- github -- which you use as observations, even though the people who originally uploaded those files had no intentions on them being observations in some person's study), and then you presented various analyses of that data in a concise way.

It may be a simple and trivial question to some, but more importantly, I think the methodology was very well done because I feel can trust your results, which should be the goal of ANY empirical analysis.
Engagement by Design (slidecast)
Not really. As oil grows scarcer it becomes more expensive to extract, regardless of whether you own the mineral rights. At some point the price will rise high enough that it's cheaper to substitute other goods for petroleum. For example liquid hydrocarbons can be manufactured using the Fischer–Tropsch process.
Since you appreciate it: it is 'to an extent'. 'extend' is a verb, 'extent' a noun. And both the original case and this one aren't about grammar, but about spelling :-)
I only hear Kegel in my head when I read your name.. :(
>It's just that you see it as due entirely to the massive increase in the USD supply in past years; I'm saying that some of it is related to basic supply/demand as well and we can see this by examining its movement in other currencies.

Not really. It's not entirely due to the increase of USD, there are demand/supply characteristics that have created a mild inflation in the price (note the cost of extraction affects only profits, not price).

However, the popular view is that the oil price is rising massively due to (a) greedy oil companies or (b) oil running out. Neither is really the case, and historically the oil price isn't significantly different to the band it has been in for the last 30 years. The data used for showing that the oil price is rising is by comparing it to the price ~10 years ago to now. But that is obscured by the fact that currency devaluation in that time period accounts for a large percentage of the sticker price rise. The real price rise is far less.
Possibly if someone managed to include it on a page you had already given permission.

I don't know if how you'd sent it somewhere with the same origin policy in place.
Craigslist Starts Cease and Desist to 3Taps and Mashery
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Working at EnergySavvy means being part of a team that believes in both the mission of reducing energy waste and the importance of building great software.

EnergySavvy's growing rapidly, but we're incredibly selective. We're looking for smart people who are passionate about building high-quality software and delighting users.

We're a small team, which means that we're rarely bored at work, we get to work on a variety of projects and there are tremendous growth opportunities. It also means we prize drive and integrity.

We're hiring backend Python devs, front-end devs, PMs, etc. Here's our jobs page:
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Bill Conway decides how to donate $1 billion
It might be nice to make a canonical list of things which suck about JavaScript.

https://hackpad.com/spTEgxqvFYj#Things-That-Suck-About-JavaS...
I have been using Alpine/Pine for almost 13 years, and agree with most of your concerns. However, some of these can be controlled using the settings.

- Full name search in LDAP work correctly. Have you set name, surname, and given name attributes correctly in your LDAP setup.

- I exclusively used IMAP and have had no troubles with IMAP folder being fist in the list.

- Starting in the inbox (using key sequences) has always worked for me.

- Reply all does not include me in the Cc. Have you tried setting up alternate addresses field in the settings.

For HTML emails, I have set w3m as my html viewer. w3m works better with complex layouts in html.
tl;dr Don't bother...

Heh! It's funny how Yandex does (or tries to do) everything that Google does after X months/years/decades. It's just Chromium with their "Yandex Bar" which they have been promoting for ages, starting from IE and Firefox extensions. I also think it's rather silly to be based on the open source Chromium project and not support Linux-based systems.

* Yandex Search = Google Search

* Yandex Direct = Google AdSense/AdWords

* Yandex Metrika = Google Analytics

* Yandex Dengi = Google Checkout/Wallet

* Yandex Maps = Google Maps

* Yandex Mail = Google Mail

* Yandex News = Google News + Google Reader

* Yandex Market = Google Shopping

* Yandex Webmaster = Google Webmaster

They even made a conference like Google Developer Day and Google IO :)

What's next? Yandex mobile OS based on Android + Yandex Bar? Let's call it Yandroid :D
3-D Printer Company Seizes Machine From Desktop Gunsmith
They do end up saving some money too, though, not only by reducing suicides and accidents, but because platform doors seem to be considered a prerequisite for "one-man operation" (ワンマン運転) on most lines, and that can help reduce staffing costs.

Most Tokyo stations also have high enough ridership that such capital improvements are a lot easier to swallow than they would be for "concrete slab in the countryside" stations.

Luckily, it's the sort of thing they can do incrementally in the places where it makes the most sense; no need to do every line and every station immediately. I imagine they'll probably continue to do it slowly, just as they're slowly adding elevators and other accessibility improvements to even minor stations.
This sounds like a way to vet out companies I don't want to work for.
It would be interesting to partner with Striking.ly to offer one-page resume hosting sites.
I agree, I'm really scratching my head here trying to understand what data volume has to do with unique users also.
You may want to re-read the article as it argues the same (or at least a similar) point that you are.
The article is discussing a real-life example on one particular website, http://www.engageweb.co.uk/. You can see the effect right on that page. I think arcatek is critiquing the weather display of that website in particular.
Renee has handled a good portion of our support tickets over the years and does a fantastic job. It's refreshing to have someone treat even the smallest problem of yours so personally - making sure everything is resolved to your satisfaction. It's huge having someone who's overseen thousands of customer tickets becoming directly involved in the engineering process. Good luck Renee!
Conversely it's a bad idea to spread yourself thin in multiple languages but master of none.

Having said that, I'm pretty much tied to Java since 2000 and haven't seen anything wrong... yet. In fact, I'm determined to get better in Java everyday (memory model, JVM, concurrency, better design, etc).

Side note: I'm also learning pure "modern" JS just because there's no choice on the client-side.
There is a huge difference between losing users and losing market share, particularly in an industry characterized by steady overall growth.

Is there any evidence that Chrome has actually lost users, or has it simply not added as many as some competing browsers?
Am I missing something? Safari is the big winner according the article with a gain of 0.16%, but IE6 gained 0.3%.
Am I reading this wrong? Surely IE6 would be the big winner in this (flawed, as reading above comments suggests) study.
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It's easy : chromium (http://www.chromium.org/) is the open source project. It's licence is open source and can be found at http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/LICENSE?revi... it looks like a "BSD with attribution" licence.
Chrome (google.com/chrome) is the "closed-source" distribution to loads of platforms (includes a few closed source components. E.g. it can play .mp3 files). It's got a standard closed source licence.

Comparison : http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/ChromiumBrowserVsGoog...

There are other distributions, for example "fedora" chromium, that doesn't have any codec support. There are versions that are not release-engineered (ie. nightly builds, but still released by some distro), ...
A "hand-drawn" plot compared to pixel-perfect one communicates an important message that error-bars are unknown and a model the plot is based on might be wrong. It stresses the plot is qualitative: a general shape of curves might be right and numbers might have correct order of magnitude — nothing more.
While San Jose pales in comparison to San Francisco, as a Bay Area native I've always enjoyed Santana Row, some parts of downtown (near 1st Street) and some of the outskirt cities like Campbell and Los Gatos. The only thing about the South Bay is that since everything is so spread apart, cab/uber rides are a bit pricier than SF.

If you're in town for Startup School, I highly recommend journeying up to SF afterward.
Can programmers without CS degrees find jobs?
Hi HN,

Just a few months ago I started teaching myself how to program (JavaScript, JQuery, HTML, CSS, so far), so I'm nowhere near experienced enough for a job, but I was curious -- can developers without CS degrees find jobs? Is there a stigma in, say, the Silicon Valley around people without degrees, or is it lax?

Also, if I were to try and get a job in the field down the road (still, without a CS degree), what would be the best way to apply? With a portfolio/Github profile with my work?
I was very surprised to see that you weren't publishing on iBooks or Kindle, but truly self publishing through your websites. How the heck do you get yourself out there to the point that you're raking in 10k a month? (Besides HN.) And do you think that'll drop off once your main readership has bought the book?
You mean before smart phones, tablets, affordable laptops became mainstream. Back in a time when technology wasn't 'cool'... back then we ran programs and applications. It wasn't cool to abbreviate =P
Blender is written in C++ isn't it? And yes there is definitely a future market in tablets for 3D sculpting/modelling (There are already apps available). Touch is a powerful metaphor in 3D modelling.
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"Chrome has dropped 0.27 points"

Is this a joke? That graph looks like four straight (xkcd-style) horizontal lines.
Speaking for myself (Sacha), I raked in 10k a month the first month. That initial boost came mainly from HN. Sales dropped off dramatically since, and now it's probably more around $1-200/month, if that.
not only that, public transportation ends before midnight/1am in the majority of places - one of my biggest gripes. Getaround and Wheelz are ride sharing options.
I've seen them at my local Staples store. It's pretty slick. I expect Best Buy has them in stock, as well.
Yes, they list the advice in the article as applying to NT 4.0. And the advice on access controls does apply there.

But the only sentences stating that specific versions have actually received C2 type certifications are in the summary. And the statement there is that 3.5 was certified as of 1995 in the USA, and 3.5.1 was given a E3/F-C2 rating in the UK. Nowhere in that article does it say that any version of 4.0 ever received C2 certification.

If you think I'm missing something, please quote directly from the relevant section of the article.
It looks like the details are here: http://www.doublewide.net/
Back when websites were called websites
Working for me on Air/Chrome 21.0.1180.89
How do you check to see if an article you are sharing has been posted before? For example, if I have a guest blogger? How do I know that HN has not already seen the content?
The chilling effect of going after service providers is really beyond the pale. ISPs are protected for good reason - the API layer shouldn't be different.
Beta version of CIBox.org - a Code Sharing and Continuous Integration Service
I use alpine and have set w3m as the HTML reader in my mailcap file. w3m also displays images in HTML. Alpine is able to display most HTML emails just fine, but when it fails, I simply press V (which shows different mime parts of the message) and Enter (by default the focus is on the 2nd part, which is text/html; Enter launches the default html browser, which is w3m that displays the message). This gives all the benefits of alpine, with the option to display html+images in the same terminal if I need to.
> Common things such as access an undefined variable

That does not require static typing, unless you're developing in elisp maybe.

> trying to call a method of a null object

Unless there's support from the type system, that one only works on very short code spans within the same scope, which is the least useful it can be (as opposed to type inference which is most useful locally).
- LDAP: it's a corp AD server, cn, name and sn are all set correctly from what I can tell.

- Maybe CentOS 6.3 ships with a bad build or lib that causes it to crash. I'm using alpine-2.02-3.el6.x86_64.

- Setting the alternate address fixed the replying to myself issue, thanks!

- I'll give w2m a shot too. ;-)

EDIT: I suspect the crashes when going into the mailbox are due to it requiring me to enter a password.
It doesn't take much talent, just an interest.
This was exactly what I was thinking when it didn't work for me; the book page would finally turn and show all kinds of people doing swipes (in all possible ways) in the air... (Macbook Air 2011, latest Chrome).
sometimes youtube is overkill -- here is a gif that explains their construction: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xgYi2-n1mgY/TButo7cH1kI/AAAAAAAAES...
> var s = 'foo';

> var l = s['length'];

> // type of l is `string`

beg pardon?

$ js
js> var s = 'foo';
js> s['length'];
3
js> typeof s['length'];
number

$ node
> var s = 'foo';
undefined
> s['length'];
3
> typeof s['length'];
'number'
TDD: your insurance policy
Another introduction to Posner is his famous analysis of The Economics of the Baby Shortage in which he argues in favor of creating a legal market for buying and selling babies:

http://www.sbm.temple.edu/ccg/documents/adoptionLandesPosner...

He is an intellectual, no doubt. But with his outspoken views on adoption, abortion, drugs etc. I don't think he will gain much influence outside academic circles.

And as much as I would have liked to see him on the Supreme Court, liberal presidents usually don't appoint libertarian justices and conservative presidents don't appoint someone with such outspoken liberal views. Maybe a second term president could have appointed Posner but would he have survived the senate confirmation?
As did I.

I came back here 6 hours after reading it to confirm that it is still stuck in my brain, I am guessing permanently. Although I already knew Pi to 6 decimal places so its not like I am gaining a lot of accuracy out of this.
works for me on the same setup.
real cool idea.
In my experience no one even asks if you went to school during job interviews.

It's very easy to get tech jobs with no degree.
Why yes, yes they can. I would say 95%~ of our graduates at Dev Bootcamp do not have CS degrees. We have an incredibly high placement rate, so I can say without a doubt, programmers without CS degrees can find jobs.

We teach Ruby, by the way.
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Essential Uses of SSL (That You Didn't Think You Need)
I said this elsewhere already, but I've been really proud to see Twilio take steps such as this one to bring more people (and more women in particular) into programming. Not being a part of the web team, I've only watched from the sidelines as Renee, who's consistently been in the office before I arrive in the morning and after I roll out in the evening, has worked to master a whole slew of technologies, and to ship new, non-trivial features for our customers.

I'm really not sure how the two facts we see here -- of people working exceptionally hard to better themselves, and of a company going out of its way to help people do that -- have to do with a bubble. It's hardly a new idea that companies do better financially when they help their employees learn to do work that they couldn't do before, or to do it better.

As the technology community, it's in all our interest to help people learn things they couldn't do before. Twilio's story is one example. Other great ones include RailsBridge, PyLadies, the Boston Python Workshop, and PyStar. Let's do more of this!
Nice done! To UX/UI designers who are excited about Maily, contact me (wanghq@twitter) pls. You could make the next brilliant app too. (sorry for the spam)
Facebook shows inbox messages publicly pre 2010
Due to a FACEBOOK glitch, private inbox messages are now visible for everyone to see - from 2009 and earlier. Check your timeline from those years. They look like wall posts but they are not!

Fix it like this: when you're in your own timeline, just click on the year on the right (2007, 2008, 2009...) ( top right hand corner by the cover picture) and you'll see a box with an amount of friends' messages and a header that says '89 (or whatever) people have written on XXX timeline' - hover over the right until you see the pencil, click and select hide from timeline. Do that for each year. BOTH parties have to delete.

Unless you want everyone to see your post-party gossip / bitching about work / social life organising / that sort of thing.
Netflix+Facebook mashup shows your the movies your friends like on Netflix.
Having a CS degree doesn't really matter.

Now more than ever you can teach yourself everything there is to know.

And showcasing your skills is easy too. Build up a good GitHub profile, contribute to open source projects, build a product and put it out there.
We do this at instandomainsearch.com too.

Our domain database is relatively small and changes slowly, so we do daily updates and distribute snapshots to all the servers. We have copies in 4 different AWS regions, and all the load-balancing and failover is done in client-side Javascript.

One server in each region is plenty for our current traffic levels, but if we need to, scaling horizontally is trivial. More important for us is that the in-browser load-balancing is based on measured latency, which ensures that each user gets the snappiest interface that we can provide.

All in all, it works really well.
How about straight up WASD? It is already a defacto standard anyway.